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South Korea’s ccTLD registry is seeking to borrow from the success of repurposed ccTLDs, including .ai, with the release of four new third-level namespaces under .kr.
This week local registry KISA started selling names in .ai.kr, .it.kr, .me.kr, and .io.kr, following the growth of the ccTLDs .ai, .it, .me and .io, which have all seen sales because they mean other stuff in English as well as being geographic identifiers.
The company acknowledged its inspiration for the new products in a recent press release:
Recently, as overseas country domains such as ‘.ai (Anguilla)’, ‘.io (British Indian Ocean Territory)’, ‘.it (Italy)’, and ‘.me (Montenegro)’ have been actively used among the AI field, startups, IT companies, and bloggers, a policy was developed to allow our citizens to use the domains they want by creating a new 3-level country domain that reflects the latest trends.
The domains are only available to registrants with a presence in Korea.
KISA said the new namespaces are priced more competitively than the two-level equivalents, with .ai.kr selling for the KRW equivalent of $14 a year, compared to .ai’s $70.
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